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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t you dare compare goddess Mariah to Taylor swift. Nobody mentioned Whitney Houston. No voice can top hers [/quote]

Whitney is a prodigy but this question is not about who has the best voice. It is about who displayed exceptional musical talent at a very young age. Everyone is so heated to say their person is the best like, they all lose to Mozart! He was composing at age 4 and his music has lasted for centuries!

This isn't 'who is the best child prodigy' just, which musicians were true prodigies. I think Whitney does qualify as her voice was fantastic even as a young kid. [/quote]

Prince and Stevie are my “Mozarts”.  [/quote]

This.  All of this.  Real musicians who did it all.  Played every instrument, wrote every song.[/quote]

Stevie Wonder was a child prodigy. Prince doesn't fit that term, since he was in his twenties when he started contributing meaningfully to music. Not even my beloved Freddie Mercury fits into the category of child prodigy.

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Please don’t conflate ability and talent with : getting “discovered” and getting a record contract.  Perhaps you could explain what you mean by  “contributing meaningfully to music”?

Prince reportedly wrote his first song at 7. He got his first record contract at 19 — for an album on which he played 27 instruments, sang, and wrote, produced, and arranged all of the songs, which strongly suggests that he must have been doing something meaningful musically, at a very adept level, way before he turned 19.

I’ll add, too, that New Orleans jazz isn’t my area of interest, but like Jon Batiste, Wynton Marsalis — and arguably more than one of his brothers, there are probably multiple prodigies that we’re not mentioning because their styles of music don’t get wider attention. Joey Alexander, the jazz pianist, is definitely an example of this.

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+ a million.  Prince and Mozart are my two.  Prince was absolutely making music from a very young age, and created multiple bands from middle school on. He was self taught.  He insisted on having creative control himself at age 19 on his first album and refused offers to have it done for him.

Also someone said Aretha didn't count because she didn't have a song at age 12.  She was already touring the country then performing gospel with her dad and gave birth at age 12!  She released a gospel album at 14 and was already a mother of two by 15.  I think those that overcame obstacles such as poverty, institutional racism, etc are even more impressive.  [/quote]

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